Catherine Keller delivered the 2013 Lester Lecture on Thursday, October 10, 2013 at 6:00 p.m. in the Hellems Building, Room 201. A reception immediately preceded the lecture at 5:00 p.m. The title for her talk was "The Matter of Entanglement: On the Physics, Sex and Spirit of a Relational Ontology." Catherine Keller is professor of constructive theology at the Theological School and Graduate Division of Religion at Drew University. She co-edited with Virginia Burrus the first volume of the transdisciplinary Theological Colloquia, Toward a Theology of Eros: Transfiguring Passion at the Limits of Discipline (2007), and co-edited with Laurel Kearns Ecospirit: Religions and Philosophies for the Earth (2007). Her previous books include The Face of the Deep: A Theology of Becoming (2003) and On the Mystery: Discerning Divinity in Process (2008). She is currently finishing Cloud of the Impossible: Theological Entanglements, which explores the relation of mystical unknowing, material indeterminacy and ontological interdependence.
The reception and talk are free and open to the public. View the poster announcement